Footnotes

AN OUTSTANDING COPY IN DUST-JACKETS of a true classic of Antarctic literature, recounting the "Winter Journey in 1911 to obtain specimen eggs from the emperor penguin rookery at Cape Crozier.... a hazardous round trip of 120 miles in darkness, at temperatures in excess of -70 °F, an exploit which is still without parallel in the annals of polar exploration... later Scott described their journey as 'the hardest that has ever been made'" (ODNB). Cherry-Garrard begun writing The Worst Journey in 1914, having been invalided out of the war, where he had commanded a motor squadron in Flanders, and finished it nearly eight years later.

A charming letter from Maggs Brothers to Dr. Kilgore of Post Street, San Francisco dated 28 June 1932, is loosely inserted ("...we are glad to say that the publishers of Garrod's [sic] book are kindly letting us have one of their reserve copies at the published price, namely £3. 3s. 0. We are getting this in and will hold it for your family. Perhaps it is rather fortunate that the second hand copy at £3. 10s. 0. was already sold!").

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